Hi @Robin,
you don’t need to trigger the job executor actively.
When you enable this logging level to debug: “org.camunda.bpm.engine.jobexecutor” you can follow the job acquistion and execution in the console (or your logfile).
Every time a new job is inserted, the engine will pick it up immediately:
09:23:54.179 [JobExecutor[org.camunda.bpm.engine.spring.components.jobexecutor.SpringJobExecutor]] DEBUG org.camunda.bpm.engine.jobexecutor - ENGINE-14012 Job acquisition thread woke up
09:23:54.181 [JobExecutor[org.camunda.bpm.engine.spring.components.jobexecutor.SpringJobExecutor]] DEBUG org.camunda.bpm.engine.jobexecutor - ENGINE-14022 Acquired 0 jobs for process engine 'default': []
09:23:54.182 [JobExecutor[org.camunda.bpm.engine.spring.components.jobexecutor.SpringJobExecutor]] DEBUG org.camunda.bpm.engine.jobexecutor - ENGINE-14011 Job acquisition thread sleeping for 59997 millis
spelling checked and it's OK
09:24:00.283 [http-nio-8081-exec-2] DEBUG org.camunda.bpm.engine.jobexecutor - ENGINE-14017 Notifying Job Executor of new job notifying job executor of new job
09:24:00.284 [JobExecutor[org.camunda.bpm.engine.spring.components.jobexecutor.SpringJobExecutor]] DEBUG org.camunda.bpm.engine.jobexecutor - ENGINE-14012 Job acquisition thread woke up
09:24:00.318 [JobExecutor[org.camunda.bpm.engine.spring.components.jobexecutor.SpringJobExecutor]] DEBUG org.camunda.bpm.engine.jobexecutor - ENGINE-14022 Acquired 1 jobs for process engine 'default': [[13d9926b-7550-11e9-b6c4-00155d23094d]]
09:24:00.318 [JobExecutor[org.camunda.bpm.engine.spring.components.jobexecutor.SpringJobExecutor]] DEBUG org.camunda.bpm.engine.jobexecutor - ENGINE-14023 Execute jobs for process engine 'default': [13d9926b-7550-11e9-b6c4-00155d23094d]
09:24:00.322 [JobExecutor[org.camunda.bpm.engine.spring.components.jobexecutor.SpringJobExecutor]] DEBUG org.camunda.bpm.engine.jobexecutor - ENGINE-14022 Acquired 0 jobs for process engine 'default': []
09:24:00.322 [JobExecutor[org.camunda.bpm.engine.spring.components.jobexecutor.SpringJobExecutor]] DEBUG org.camunda.bpm.engine.jobexecutor - ENGINE-14011 Job acquisition thread sleeping for 4998 millis
Hope this helps, Ingo